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JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850

JACKSONS INDIAN REMOVAL ACT OF 1830

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These statements are describing events that resulted from the presidency ofMore than 45, 000, American Indians begin to be relocated to the WestAbout 100 million acres of Indian land was ceded to the U.S.The Treaty of New Echota was signed, giving up all Cherokee land in GeorgiaThe beginning of the “Trail of Tears”
A
John Marshall.
B
Andrew Jackson.
C
James Johnson.
D
Abraham Lincoln.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The agreement led to the forced removal of Cherokees from their southeastern homelands to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River. The Treaty of New Echota gave the Cherokees $5 million and land in present-day Oklahoma in exchange for their 7 million acres of ancestral land.

Detailed explanation-2: -Jackson declared that removal would “incalculably strengthen the southwestern frontier.” Clearing Alabama and Mississippi of their Indian populations, he said, would “enable those states to advance rapidly in population, wealth, and power."

Detailed explanation-3: -A majority of Cherokee people considered the Treaty of New Echota fraudulent, and in February 1836 the Cherokee National Council voted to reject it. Led by Principal Chief John Ross, opponents submitted a petition, signed by thousands of Cherokee citizens, urging Congress to void the agreement.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation during the 1830s of Indigenous peoples of the Southeast region of the United States (including the Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole, among others) to the so-called Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.

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